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Nate's avatar

"Moving the goalpost"? This study shows that - masks or not - about 10% of people will catch a cold in a 2-week period. There's a negligible (I agree this is a subjective adjective) difference between those in masks and those not.

Of course, interpretation has a subjective element to it. Some may see a 3% difference and say, "Oh my gosh. I'm 3% less likely to get a virus for 2 weeks, that's awesome. I'm willing to hide my face, inhale microplastics, impair my child's language development. I also don't need to shave, brush my teeth or wear lipstick." Others may reasonably interpret this as, "Woah... even with the obvious bias, confounding and other errors inherent in a trial based on self-reporting subjective results without blinding, there is hardly any difference in outcomes in this short-term trial. I may postpone my infection risk by a few weeks, but this is ridiculous and how dare my government dream of infringing on my rights to have a face and force it on me based on such garbage data?"

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Kaki's avatar

When did the govt infringe on your rights?

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Nate's avatar

This is a joke, right? Where have you been since March 2020?

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Nervusman's avatar

Maybe you were already masking and living in a bubble when all the boogeyman junk mandated by the government- school boards, chief medical officer, douche bag trudumb, business community, etc was mandated. I suppose one could have chosen to stay in their own bubble and avoid daily life if they didn’t want to mask. Maybe that’s the medical freedom we were entitled to. As long as you didn’t have mouths to feed and a household to support.

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